Introduction

Bachmann 16506 HO Scale Boxcar Santa Fe “El Capitan / Map” Santa Fe ATSF 140271

In 1940 the Santa Fe Railway began painting freight cars as rolling advertisements. Refrigerator cars, boxcars, and auto cars were decorated with a system map on one side and train name slogans on the other.

FEATURES:

• Silver Series Rolling Stock Fully Assembled
• Highly Detailed Painted Bodies with sliding doors, and Precision Graphics (where applicable)
• Blackened Machined Metal Wheels with RP25 Contours
• Magnetically Operated E-Z Mate Mark II Couplers
• Non-magnetic Blackened Brass Axles with Needle-point Bearings
• Celcon Trucks
• Added Weight for Optimum Tracking Performance
• HO Scale 1:87